Harris picked a far left douche to match her own agenda.
“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” Walz said. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Socialist and communist dictators have killed and impoverished millions of people. Walz likes that.
Tim Waltz’s legacy:
His stint as governor was rife with corruption:
……..Minnesota has long been a blue state, but it wasn’t until Walz took office in 2019 that it embraced the kookiness of hard-Left policy made infamous by states like California and New York.
……….Americans will remember the riots the racked the country following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. What many might not appreciate, however, is Walz’s inexplicable failure to quell the violence and destruction in his own backyard. As Minneapolis burned, he waited too long to make what should have been an obvious decision: call up the National Guard. This delay allowed the chaos to escalate unchecked, resulting in what is estimated to be more than $500 million in damage, making it the second-costliest instance of local unrest in U.S. history, behind only the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The trauma and harm done to individuals and communities, though, is incalculable.
Also weird is the historic amount of fraud plaguing Minnesota during Walz’s governorship. It seems that every week has brought a new disclosure. In 2022, Minnesota’s U.S. attorney announced federal charges against the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which stole $250 million from taxpayers meant for needy kids, making it the “largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the nation.” Horrifyingly, Walz’s response was so outrageous, he earned a rebuke from a federal judge. Then this past month, it was revealed that more than $200 million of a $500 million Frontline Worker payment program went to people either committing fraud or with questionable eligibility. Yet the state continues to deliver contracts to crooked enterprises and not a single person has been fired.
……..In 2022, Minnesota was flush with COVID-related cash from the federal government, boasting the largest budget surplus in state history. At $19 billion, it was bigger than the full budgets of 17 U.S. states. But rather than providing tax relief to Minnesotans as he promised, Walz gave away the cash to virtually every Democratic constituency in the state, increasing the state budget by 38 percent in just one legislative session. To make matters worse, he raised taxes by a whopping $10 billion. It was the single most reckless fiscal step taken in the modern history of Minnesota.
……..One could also mention, among other policies, the lack of a response to cratering test scores for Minnesota students, the free health care and college tuition provided to illegal immigrants, the dismissal of police officers from Minnesota public schools, and some of the most stringent COVID lockdowns in America.
The ‘free lunch’ Feeding Our Future tactic ended up with charges of fraud against 48 defendants in six indictments.
He presided over Minnesota during the George Floyd riots of 2020, that caused nearly $2 billion in property destruction across the US. Then he ordered an over 8 minute moment of silence to honor the career criminal who held up a pregnant woman at gunpoint and overdosed on fentanyl.
He catered to foreign nationals who are in the country illegally by using citizen’s tax dollars to pay for their healthcare and tuition.
He signed an executive order that made Minnesota a sanctuary state for child genital mutilation, and gave the state the power to take them away from their parents if they don’t like it.
Walz also created a a hotline during covid to report your neighbors if they weren’t social distancing.
He sent the National Guard into the streets where they shot paintballs at people who were sitting on their front porches during his covid curfew.
Walz signed a bill to place tampon machines in boys’ school restrooms.
He signed a bill that removed anti-pedophile language from a human rights act.
Looks like Walz also dodged deployment:
A third retired command sergeant major is speaking out against Gov. Tim Walz, saying he “let his Soldiers down” by avoiding a deployment to Iraq in 2005 before running for Congress.
Doug Julin worked his way up to division command sergeant major (CSM) before he retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2012 after serving 35 years.
“This was a backdoor deal,” Julin said of Walz not going on the mission.
Julin is the third retired CSM to speak with Alpha News this month about a story that all three say deserves more attention.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen called a press conference Thursday to draw attention to the story. He was joined by retired Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrends, who ended up replacing Walz on the deployment.
“In my eyes, today is the day that Tim Walz is indicted for lack of leadership and an unwillingness to do his duty,” Jensen said.
…….Julin said a group of senior leaders met in early 2005 to get on the same page about the deployment. He said six battalions in total were going on the Iraq mission and four were from Minnesota. Julin recalled that Walz was at this meeting because he had just been conditionally promoted to the rank of command sergeant major of the First Battalion-125th Field Artillery. According to Julin, Walz said he would be going on the deployment.
A short time later, Walz was talking about running for Congress but again said he would be going on the deployment, according to Julin.
“I’m going forward,” Julin recalls Walz saying. “Then out of nowhere in June of 2005, Tom Behrends is there as the new CSM.”
Julin said he was most upset with how it was handled because Walz didn’t come to him as brigade command sergeant major, the position he held at the time.
“He went around my authority to get out of the position. I probably would have told him ‘No, you’re going on the deployment,’” Julin said.
“At that point in time my focus wasn’t on Tim Walz walking out the door. My focus was on all the enlisted. I had to make sure all the Soldiers had their head on straight. Their health and welfare were at the forefront, and we had to make sure they had everything they needed to do their jobs,” he added.
He said, however, that Walz pulling out set a tone.
“Soldiers are thinking, ‘What does he know that I don’t know?’ That’s the kind of message it sends,” he said.
“I don’t know anybody that wanted to go to war then, but we went because we were tasked to do it,” Julin added.
…….Julin told Alpha News he doesn’t really take issue with Walz using the CSM title after not completing all of the requirements to earn the rank. What matters to him most is how he walked away from his troops.
He wanted to share his story ahead of the election because he believes Minnesotans deserve better.
“Why should we be quiet? He uses the military to promote himself when he abandoned his Soldiers,” he said. “He let the Soldiers down. How can you be entrusted to be the governor of Minnesota when if something is not to your liking, you quit or you serve yourself and not others?”
Walz lied about his rank, lied about serving in Afghanistan, and quit when he heard his unit was going to mobilize to Iraq. What a shitstain.
Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years.
We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of the dates and time frames are from his official discharge document and the reduction order reducing him to Master Sergeant.
On September 18th, 2001 Tim Walz reenlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard for six years.
In early 2003 he was selected to attend the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The non-resident course consists of two years of correspondence coursework, followed by a two-week resident phase at Fort Bliss, Texas. When a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer accepts enrollment in the course, they accept three stipulations. First, they will serve for two years after graduation from the academy, or promotion to Sergeant Major or Command Sergeant Major, whichever is later. Second, if they fail the course they may be separated from the military. Third, they will complete the course or be reduced to Master Sergeant without board action. Senior Non-Commissioned Officers initial and sign a Statement of Agreement and Certification upon enrollment. The State Command Sergeant Major or Army National Guard Command Sergeant Major counsels the Soldier and certifies that the senior Non-Commissioned Officer understands their responsibilities. These stipulations are put in place because the academy is a college level school, the military invests a lot of taxpayer money in the student. The military needs to ensure they will get the return on investment that the taxpayers deserve.
In late summer of 2003, First Sergeant Walz deployed with the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Italy. The mission was to augment United States Air Force Europe Security Forces doing base security for six months. In no way were the units or Soldiers of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion replacing any units or military forces so they could deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.
After the units return to Minnesota in the spring of 2004, he was selected by high level Command Sergeants Major to serve in the position of the Command Sergeant Major of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion.
On August 5th, 2004 he was photographed holding a sign at a protest outside a President Bush campaign rally in southern Minnesota.
On September 17th, 2004 he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major. The conditions had been outlined to him when he was counseled and he signed the Statement of Agreement and Certification. If the conditions are not met, the promotion is null and void, like it never happened.
In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position he was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq.
On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty; as many reservists have. If he had retired normally and respectfully, you would think he would have ensured his retirement documents were correctly filled out and signed, and that he would have ensured he was reduced to Master Sergeant for dropping out of the academy. Instead he waited for the paperwork to catch up to him. His official retirement document states, SOLDIER NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE.
On September 10th, 2005 conditionally promoted Command Sergeant Major Walz was reduced to Master Sergeant. It took a while for the system to catch up to him as it was uncharted territory, literally no one quits in the position he was in, or drops out of the academy. Except him.
In November of 2005, while the battalion trained for war at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, it received an offer from retired Master Sergeant Walz. He offered to fund raise for the battalions bus trip home over Christmas that year.
The 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion was deployed for 22 months in 2006 – 2007. During this time, they were restricted by Army regulations and could not speak out against a candidate for office. In November 2006 he was elected to the House of Representatives. He claims to be the highest-ranking enlisted service member ever to serve in congress. Even though he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major less than eight months, quit before his obligations were met, and was reduced to Master Sergeant for retirement. Yes, he served at that rank, but was never qualified at that rank, and will receive retirement benefits at one rank below. You be the judge.
On November 1st, 2006, Tom Hagen, Iraq War Veteran, wrote a letter to the editor of the Winona Daily News. Here are a couple of sentences from the letter: But even more disturbing is the fact that Walz quickly retired after learning that his unit -southern Minnesota’s 1-125 FA Battalion – would be sent to Iraq. For Tim Walz to abandon his fellow soldiers and quit when they needed experienced leadership most is disheartening.
Here is part of Tim Walz’s response: After completing 20 years of service in 2001, I re-enlisted to serve our country for an additional four years following Sept. 11 and retired the year before my battalion was deployed to Iraq in order to run for Congress.
According to his official Report of Separation and Record of Service, he re-enlisted for six years on September 18th, 2001. However, in his response he says that he re-enlisted for four years, conveniently retiring a year before his battalion was deployed to Iraq. Even if he had re-enlisted for four years following Sept.11, his retirement date would have been September 18th, 2005. Why then did he “retire” on May 16th, 2005, before his supposed four-year enlistment was up? And he makes it sound like he “retired” a year before his battalion deployed to Iraq; when in reality he knew when he “retired” that the battalion would be deployed to Iraq.
The bottom line in all of this is gut wrenching and sad to explain. When the nation called, he quit. He failed to complete the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. He failed to serve for two years following completion of the academy, which he dropped out of. He failed to serve two years after the conditional promotion to Command Sergeant Major. He failed to fulfill the full six years of the enlistment he signed on September 18th, 2001. He failed his country. He failed his state. He failed the Minnesota Army National Guard, the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, and his fellow Soldiers. And he failed to lead by example. Shameful.
Thomas Behrends
Command Sergeant Major (Retired)
Paul Herr
Command Sergeant Major (Retired)
The Minnesota National Guard is disputing Governor Tim Walz’s military biography, saying that the Democratic vice presidential candidate did not hold the rank of command sergeant major at the time of his retirement.
Army Lieutenant Colonel Kristen Augé, the state public affairs officer for Minnesota National Guard, told Just the News on Wednesday that the governor did not retire as “Command Sergeant Major Walz” in 2005, as stated on Minnesota’s official website, but as master sergeant “because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.” A soldier who does not complete the requisite coursework is automatically demoted, according to Army regulations.
…….It is not the first time that Walz has faced scrutiny over his military background.
When he first ran for governor in 2018, two retired senior officials with the Minnesota National Guard wrote an open letter criticizing Walz for retiring shortly before his battalion was to set for an active-duty deployment in Iraq, quitting months after they were ordered to mobilize and “leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging.”
He mocked the same National Guard troops as “19 year-old crooks” while he refused to deploy with them.
“I deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. My battalion provided security in the early stages of the war in Afghanistan”. Walz in fact didn’t serve in Afghanistan.
In typical liberal fashion, he panders to Islamic demagogues.
Walz hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and promoted a pro-Hitler film popular among Neo-Nazis. The cleric’s Islamist group received $100K+ in state funding from Walz:
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.
The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders in May 2023 for a meeting about mosque security with Walz’s gubernatorial office in Minnesota. Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death. In April 2019, the cleric delivered an invocation before Walz’s state address — just months after Zaman called for an end to a government shutdown at a press conference with Walz in January 2019.
Zaman, moreover, attended a May 2019 event that Walz hosted for Ramadan, social media posts show.
Walz’s ties to Zaman could serve as problematic baggage for the Minnesota governor as he campaigns with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. News of the ties also comes after a Washington Free Beacon report this week found Walz spoke at a 2019 event with an antisemitic scholar who has defended terrorism against Israel.
Zaman, who is from Bangladesh, said on Oct. 7 of last year that he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.” That day, which saw 1,200 Israelis murdered by Hamas terrorists, he also shared an image of a Palestinian flag on Facebook in response to a post by Yusuf Abdi Abdulle, director of the Islamic Association of North America, declaring that “Palestine has the right to defend itself.” The Biden-Harris administration, Abdulle wrote in the post, was “on the wrong side of history” in “supporting the extremist Zionist regime and its illegal settlements.”
Zaman, meanwhile, has used his Facebook page over the years to share official Hamas press releases, blog posts on antisemitic websites slamming Jews, and, in one 2015 instance, a link to a piece on a website for a pro-Hitler film called The Greatest Story Never Told…….
“Imam Zaman has a troubling history of playing into classic anti-Jewish themes and justifying violence against Israel,” an Anti-Defamation League spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.
“He also has justified violence against Israel, including from terror groups,” the ADL spokesperson said. “Given his hurtful remarks post-Oct. 7, and absent any recognition of the pain he has caused the Jewish community, we urge all public officials and leaders to avoid meeting with him in the future. Those who have met with Imam Zaman should clarify that they don’t agree with his toxic views about Jews and the Jewish state.”
………The Muslim American Society was once described by federal prosecutors as being “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” court records show. The MAS, which the United Arab Emirates designated as a terrorist group in 2014, came under fire in 2019 after a video surfaced online of children at an event held by its Philadelphia chapter calling for the murder of Jews.
He cozied up with anti-Semitic terrorist supporting CAIR:
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz spoke at an event for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in 2019, where he rubbed shoulders with an anti-Semitic scholar behind much of the Hamas propaganda on college campuses in the wake of Oct. 7, according to photos from the event.
Walz, the governor of Minnesota, appeared at the “Challenging Islamophobia” conference, hosted by CAIR’s Minnesota chapter on March 28, 2019, at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. Walz gave introductory remarks at the event and announced the formation of a civil rights office to address Islamophobia in the state, which has the largest population of Somali Muslims in the country.
Photos of the conference show Walz posed with Hatem Bazian, an anti-Semitic scholar who has for years defended anti-Israel terrorist activity. Bazian is the founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, the group behind many of the pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic rallies across college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks. The group’s George Washington University chapter projected the slogan “Glory to Our Martyrs” days after the attack. Bazian also founded Students for Justice in Palestine’s parent group American Muslims for Palestine, an influential anti-Israel organization under investigation in Virginia for allegedly financing terrorist activity.
……..Harris snubbed Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, a popular Jewish Democrat, in favor of Walz—a pick praised by anti-Israel “Squad” members and anti-Israel groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America.
CAIR’s and Bazian’s views were well known at the time Walz attended the Islamophobia conference.
Federal prosecutors labeled CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator of Hamas in a 2008 terrorism finance case. In 2017, Bazian apologized for posting an anti-Semitic meme of a Jewish man with the caption “Mom look! I is chosen! I can now kill, rape, smuggle organs & steal the land of Palestinians Yay #Ashke-Nazi.”
He gave $2 million to an al Qaeda-linked “charity”, the Islamic Association of North America (IANA).
Minnesota is a state known for embracing Islamofascists and far-Left DemProg shit stains.
The Islamic insurgency is flooding Minnesota. It’s become a hotbed for muzzie extremists. It leads the nation in would-be ISIS members; Minneapolis is a major recruiting center. The Somali population in the state is producing its fair share of terrorists. They travel overseas to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaida affiliate in Somalia, and ISIS in Syria and Iraq. There’s nothing to stop them from reentering the U.S. and committing more terrorist acts here. Rep Ilhan Omar (D MN) is a terrorist supporter who also committed immigration and marriage fraud with her own brother and received asylum under a false name. The U.S. should send her ass back to Somalia.
The party that calls everyone Hitler has a massive antisemitism problem. Imagine that.
Walz’s daughter supported the BLM/Antifa thugs who burned their way through Minnesota: She was sending them Tweets.
He’s a fine addition to the Dem shitshow.
Related articles:
https://manhattan.institute/article/socialism-destroys-the-human-character
https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walz-has-been-disaster-minnesotans-opinion-1935402
MN NG confirms Walz demotion. https://mxmnews.com/article/fd8f847e-8941-4aa6-ab1b-421f549a4431